I’m 41 years of age and I have 3 kids ages 15, 19 and 21. My new partner and I had just got engaged in October and decided in January we would plan our wedding and I would start back on my diet, after Christmas that’s what I did and first week went well until one night on the 7th of January I decided to do a breast check and I found a very large lump on my left breast.
Straight away I knew it wasn’t good and I went to my GP the next morning who said it was possibly fatty tissue but made an appointment in the triple assessment clinic in the Mater hospital . It was the longest 10 day wait of my life, in the clinic after a mammogram, scan and biopsy they told me before leaving that I did in fact have cancer but I had to come back the week after for biopsy results to see how bad it was.
I sobbed my heart out and walking past all the women waiting for their appointment was tough for both me and I’m sure them too. I rang my mam who also sobbed on the phone but I waited until I got home to tell the kids who were devastated.
So to cut a long story short my cancer turned out to be stage 3 but nodes were clear and her2 positive. I had a lumpectomy on 15th of March i now have my 3rd AC tomorrow and one more 2 weeks away..then i start weekly on 12 weeks Taxol with Herceptin with the Herceptin been weekly for a year. I’m still coming to terms with it but I feel lucky that I caught it early and I’ve been giving a chance to show I can fight this with all I got as some people with other illnesses or maybe some other way get taking too quickly and don’t get a chance. This has taking away my dignity, my life,my schedule, my hair and my confidence but I refuse to let it beat me or bring me down and I will indeed fight this with all I’ve got 
